Tachi, which was carved out a niche as a home for top 125-pounders, had many of the world’s top ones on display Friday.

In the headliner, Montague (9-2 MMA, 3-1 TPF) put his belt on the line for the first time since his lopsided title victory over Ulysses Gomez in February. But he ran into a buzzsaw in McCall (11-2 MMA, 3-0 TPF), a former WEC bantamweight.

Although both fighters scored heavy punches, McCall dropped his opponent in the first, unloaded effective ground shots in the second, and ultimately locked in a fight-ending rear-naked choke at the 2:15 mark of the third round.

McCall, who solidified his standing as one of the world’s top 125-pounders, now has won four straight fights, and his lone career losses came to bigger opponents Dominick Cruz and Charlie Valencia under the WEC banner.

In the co-headliner, Soto (9-2 MMA, 1-0 TPF) saw his first fight since a career-threatening eye injury end in disappointed and an eventual submission defeat to Yagin (14-4-1 MMA, 3-1 TPF).

Yagin won a standup exchange and then locked in a guillotine choke, pulled guard, and got the tap-out a mere two minutes into the fight.

For now, Soto, who was cleared to fight (detached retina) earlier this summer, still is slated to fight next month in the opening round of Bellator’s season-five bantamweight tourney. The Hawaiian-based Yagin, meanwhile, has won six of his past seven fights and now holds the previously vacant Tachi featherweight title.

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